Crocosmia leaves in frost.
This was taken in my garden last week after a hard frost - one of the first we have had. If last year was anything to go by, we may not have many.
I just liked the shapes, colours and textures. It’s difficult to make an image like this interesting though. It helps if you have some contrast in shape, colour or… something.
Contrasts are important in photographic composition, and there are so many types! What fun…
So what contrasts do you see here? I ask because we are all different in our visual make-up and I find that interesting.
But I digress. This is for Crazy Tuesday’s Textures theme this week. What a great idea!
There is also a mono version for my 100x Way Behind challenge. Mono is good for textures but I think I prefer the colour as there are more contrasts to add interest. An interesting experiment though, which is what it is all about.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Craziest of Tuesdays :)
[Handheld in the freezing daylight.
Developed in Capture One.
Processed in Topaz Detail… er… for lots of detail.
Vignette in Affinity for the colour version.
Silver Efex mono conversion starting from one of the Low Key presets with lots of balancing in the tweaks afterwards. Red filter. Light Selenium tone; dark edges.]
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Clematis Vitalba.
I know what you are thinking. But, no, the title does not refer to your esteemed photographer… well not just now in any case.
This hedgerow plant is our native clematis. I’ve taken it before including earlier in the year when it was flowering - it has interesting white starburst blooms.
But these are the seed heads that give the climber its colloquial name of Old Man’s Beard.
I took this on a walk today in the local lanes. The sun was out - yey! Mind you it’s a rather week solar affair at 51 degrees North in December.
I checked this morning what the Crazy Tuesday theme was this week (proper finger on the pulse planning, then, Peter :) ). Bokeh. I am glad we don’t have to pronounce that on Flickr…
I’ve not taken photos all week as it’s been a bit hectic with one thing and the other so today’s walk was my only chance. I’ve done it in monochrome for my 100x challenge, though this is another one where a little colour helps a lot.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Tuesday Craziness and 100x :)
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I love walking in woods in summer, enveloped by the green canopy like a cocoon but with sparkles of sky and cloud, all the while aware of a slow-living seemingly ageless, benign presence surrounding me…
Capturing that in an image is another matter…
This is another attempt at taking a photograph about something rather than of something… the feeling of trees in summer in this instance…
(One of these days I shall run out of ellipses ;) )
This is for Crazy Tuesday and the theme Looking up. You can imagine me lying on the ground taking this.
You’d be wrong of course - I wouldn’t recommend ever doing that - eventually the man-eating ants will find you and all that will be left for others to discover will be your camera and your water bottle. A sad end….
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Craziness :)
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This is a four-image in-camera multiple exposure looking up through some trees on a local walk this week. Pointing at the same part of the canopy I rotated the camera between each shot.
I was just attracted to the patterns in the branches...
For the Crazy Tuesday theme Backlight today, and also for my 100x project on Motion.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Crazy Tuesday and 100x :)
[Handheld in sunlight.
4 image multiple exposure in-camera with rotation around the lens axis.
Developed the resulting jpg in Capture One.
Sharpened in Affinity with contrast added as well as increasing the colour intensity using Curves; light vignette; square crop.]
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By request most of my presents this year were secondhand novels, though I did allow myself two bits of photography equipment. One was a cheap UV torch with LEDs that have most of their output in the ultraviolet range, beyond visible blue light.
The main use of the torch is for photographing flowers - the honeyguides on some flowers only become noticeable when seen in UV, and some insects see mainly in that region of light. The trouble is that there are very few flowers in the garden at the moment.
The past few days have seen a strange bloke wandering around the house and the garden in the dark, pointing a blue flashlight at things. Sadly the only things responding outside at the moment are dead snail shells, plant labels, and the hosepipe.
UV light is very high energy light (heading up towards X-rays in energy, the kind of light that causes sunburn and skin cancer) and a wide variety of chemicals absorb it then take some energy out of it and reflect it back in the visible range that we can see. These fluorescing chemicals appear to glow as if they are generating light themselves, but really all they are doing is downgrading the energy of the UV light falling on them and shining back something we can see.
In the house there was more success with the UV torch. Some of the red berries on the Christmas ornaments glowed a fierce orange in the UV light which was quite alarming. A lot of white paper has fluorescing chemicals added to make them ‘bright white’ and these glow brightly (the Daz laundry powder 'blue whitener' is the same idea). The fluorescent pen caps on marker pens do their bit too. (I'll not mention my glowing toenails as you already suspect that I'm an alien anyway, and it's probably too much detail :) ).
But in my study (also known as the library, the wine cupboard, and junk room three) the best examples I found are some of my daughter’s creations from 15 or so years ago. These were made from Hama Beads ironed together as a craft toy. Some of the beads were ‘glow in the dark’ special ones and these fluoresced nicely in the UV light.
Picture herewith enclosed, for the Crazy Tuesday theme of gift. The torch is the white thing on the left :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Crazy Tuesday :)
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